Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes by James S. Albert,Roberto Reis

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By James S. Albert,Roberto Reis

The fish faunas of continental South and critical the US represent one of many maximum concentrations of aquatic range on the earth, including approximately 10 percentage of all residing vertebrate species. Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes explores the evolutionary origins of this distinct surroundings. The chapters handle principal topics within the research of tropical biodiversity: why is the Amazon basin domestic to such a lot of special evolutionary lineages? What roles do ecological specialization, speciation, and extinction play within the formation of nearby assemblages? How do dispersal obstacles give a contribution to isolation and diversification? concentrating on entire faunas instead of person taxonomic teams, this quantity exhibits that the area’s excessive local variety isn't the results of fresh diversification in lowland tropical rainforests. relatively, it's the made from species collecting over hundreds of thousands of years and throughout a continental arena.

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